Writers at Work: Melissa Girard and Allen Brizee
Tuesday, April 23, 2019, at 6 p.m., 4th Floor Program Room
Melissa Girard is an Associate Professor of English at Loyola University Maryland. She teaches courses in American literature, modern poetry, and gender and sexuality studies. Her research focuses on the history of twentieth-century American women's poetry. Recent publications include "J. Saunders Redding and the 'Surrender' of African American Women's Poetry" (PMLA, 2017) and "Forgiving the Sonnet: Modernist Women's Love Poetry and the Problem of Sentimentality" (Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century American Women's Poetry, 2016).
Allen Brizee is an Associate Professor of Writing at Loyola University Maryland. He teaches technical and professional writing, as well as rhetoric and first-year writing. Dr. Brizee’s research focuses on social justice projects he runs with students, faculty members, and members of the Baltimore community. His most recent project joined service-learning students with GEDCO/CARES on York Road to run literacy and employment workshops at the Loyola Clinical Centers in Belvedere Square.
Allen received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in rhetoric and composition, and he has been published in numerous journals in writing studies. In 2016, he published the co-authored the book Partners in Literacy: A Writing Center Model for Civic Engagement (Rowman and Littlefield). In 2018, he co-authored Read, Reason, Write: An Argument Text and Reader, 12th ed. (McGraw-Hill Education). Allen lives in Towson, Maryland with his wife, Stephanie, and their two (crazy) West Highland Terriers, Jackson and Josephine.
Upcoming Events
Writers at Work: Karin Lin-GreenbergTuesday, October 8th at 6:30pm
Fourth Floor Program Room
Modern Masters:Jackie Calmes
Wednesday, October 16th at 6:00pm
McManus Theater
Becoming Bulletproof
Monday, October 28th at 7:00pm
Fourth Floor Program Room
Writers at Work: Faculty Reading
Tuesday, Feburary 18th at 6:30pm
Fourth Floor Program Room
One Question
Wednesday, April 2nd at 7:00pm
Fourth Floor Program Room
Writers at Work: Emma Dries
Tuesday, April 8th at 6:30pm
Fourth Floor Program Room